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Sandra Fisher-Martins: The right to understand
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Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren’t. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the information we need -- and three steps to change that. In Portuguese with English subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxO'Porto.)
Sandra Fisher-Martins fights “information apartheid” -- the barrier created by overly complex language. Full bio »
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